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Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1980
Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer
Collection
Identifier: CN 417
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one prayer letter relating to the ministry of Charles Oliver “Dick” Springer, missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Japan from 1937-1996.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Dick Springer in which he describes his family and their missionary interest and involvement, conversion, education (at Whitman College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Moody Bible Institute), his involvement...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1989
Collection 321 Papers of Glicerio M. Manzano
Collection
Identifier: CN 321
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of prayer letters and oral history interviews, which document Glicerio M. Jojo Manzano's early life, education, family life, and work as a service manager with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and as an accountant for a rural hospital with International Nepal Fellowship.Series 1: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Glicerio Manzano. Topics discussed in the interview include Manzano's early life, education,...
Dates:
Created: 1981-1992
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1975
Collection 057 Papers of Susan Bartel
Collection
Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1979
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- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- Kane, J. Herbert. 3
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Crossett, Margaret E. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
- Straw, Darien A. 2
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
- Bartel, Loyal. 1
- Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hess, Esther N. 1
- Hess, Lawrence. 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Philippines) 1
- International Nepal Fellowship. 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- Manzano, Glicerio M. 1
- Manzano, Rebecca. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
- Page, Isaac. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Pittman, Richard S. (Richard Saunders), 1915- 1
- Pocket Testament League. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1
- Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
- Springer, Charles Oliver. 1
- Springer, Marion. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
- Suttie, Melvin. 1
- Thomas, David D. 1
- Thomas, Dorothy Fowler. 1
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